Publications of George Powel

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed for George Powel

  • Woodroffe, Benjamin. The fall of Babylon. Or, Seasonable reflections on the novelties of Rome: with the rise, growth, and final overthrow of Antichrist now at hand: occasioned by the preface to a treatise called Nubes testium, or, A collection of primitive fathers giving testimony to the faith once delivered to the saints, being (as the author stileth it) a full discovery of the sentiments of the ancient fathers in the chief points of controversy at present under debate. Written upon the first coming forth of the said treatise, (but not permitted to be then made public:) for the benefit of all, who abominate the corruptions of the great whore, and would not be partakers of her sins, or plagues. By B.W. D.D. London: printed for George Powel, over against Lincolns Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane, MDCXC. [1690]. ESTC No. R201794. Grub Street ID 79118.